Cryptocurrency donations for bots, groups and channels
Show a button for sending quick donations to maintainers of bots, groups or channels using cryptocurrency. This could use either an established cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, Etherium, EOS, etc. – or some…
Best way is: if you have a username, then you are public.
If not, you can stop people from private messaging you. Simple.
Maybe the more we are...
We admins of those medium-large communities are the ones that have to push it and to teach new users about this. Telegram is clearly not helping new users that are exploring public groups andare not educated on this topics.
In my case, I have an army of bots that remove spam and scams using a variety of different methods, but that doesn't stop scammers from changing their tactics. When a network of scammers detect that there is an army of bots, and that army of bots is working, they simply join and DM people. Point is, group owners become aware of this very quickly and they have to start putting pinned announcements in their groups regularly to tell people it's a scam. Why should they have to do that? Would it not be easier to just have a switch in group settings to say "disallow members from seeing other member profiles", or "disallow members from messaging other members directly"? I know it can be tricky, because sometimes you want to allow it. But that’s what exception lists are for.
"For example there is a hidden privacy option to Archive and Silence new Private Messages from non-contact users.
It's a step forward but this option only appears if you litterally get bombarded with hundreds of unknown users..."